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Botswana could offer Tsvangirai sanctuary
Foreign Minister, Phandu Skelemani also told BBC World News that regional powers must admit they had failed to resolve the deadlock between Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe and should now bring economic pressure to bear. Asked whether...
27 November 2008
BCL recovers P5m in anti-graft drive
Dube said the recovery of the money was facilitated by an offer of amnesty BCL made to individuals and companies that may have defrauded the company by corrupt means."Trust is one of our values," he said. "Our organisation was built on trust and we...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 27 November 2008
Botswana needs the E-passport
Ever since that security watermark now known as September 11, many governments around the world spend a lot of money getting more arms and ammunition for their armies to secure themselves. Civil aviation procedures had to be rewritten on the face of...
Editor 27 November 2008
Big Brother Africa Three: A wake-up call
The paper says "The sad thing about the BB shows is that participants in there are almost always regarded as if they represent the countries they come from...It is of course true that when a compatriot excels in the promotion of virtue, even as we...
27 November 2008
Lessons for young Batswana with aspirations for Political Office from Barack Obama
As a political non-aligned but very much aware youth, I took notes and I have garnered enough to share with fellow Batswana youth with aspirations to become President of Fatshe Leno La Rona one day.There were many lessons that came out of the...
27 November 2008
Cartoon 27.11.08
27 November 2008
Volleyballers lament tournament congestion
Osupile said the congestion of tournaments did not give them enough time to prepare for the Zone VI club championships billed for Durban, South Africa next month. He stated that the level of competition has improved in the men's game because unlike...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 November 2008
Botswana golfer wins prize at Swazi Open
She said Swaziland invited all the women's golfers in the continent although the participants were only from Botswana, South Africa and the host country. She was among the three women from Botswana together with Maria Machaelo-Ellis and Tiny...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 27 November 2008
BOPSSA launches in Palapye
During the launch of BOPSSA in Palapye, Mokalake said the ministry encourages the bench-marking of sports development for purposes of enriching the skills and knowledge of young people. He said despite the problems that the new association is...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 27 November 2008
Opposition urges Khama to fight AIDs
Khama will be the main speaker at the World AIDS Day commemorations in Selebi Phikwe on Monday. Two opposition party figures have challenged the president to pursue HIV/AIDS with the same vigour he has done with the alcohol issue.Botswana National...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 27 November 2008
Botswana not ready for direct election of president - DK
Kwelagobe was responding to MPs' comments on a bill he tabled in Parliament to amend the Electoral Act. He said that he has noticed that MPs especially from the opposition want proportional representation and direct election of the president to...
OLIVER MODISE
Correspondent 27 November 2008
Education ministry introduces specialization
She explained that they are looking at results of the pilot project, which guides them on how they should roll out. Zuze stated that they changed the medium of instruction from Setswana to English and this has improved the confidence of the...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 27 November 2008
BOPRITA leaders face stand off with members
Insiders say that teachers are bent on defying the union leadership by marking the JC and Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) scripts. In fact, teachers, majority of which are staunch members of BOSETU honoured the Botswana...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 27 November 2008
Ricco was the people's 'champion'
Ricardo Venancio, fondly known as Ricco in the house, the ultimate winner of BBA 3 cash prize, was Africa's sweetheart from the onset and seemed to get along well with all the other housemates. It was obvious from the onset that Africa had fallen...
MAUREEN ODUBENG
Staff Writer 27 November 2008
Miss Teen Africa beauty queens shell-shocked
The coordinator of the event, Miti Mhlaganyebe said the money would be deposited into an interest-bearing account with Stanbic Bank and the parents of the contestants would be one of the signatories. Mhlagayebe said they called the parents and they...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 27 November 2008
Splash rolls into town again
But while a lot of focus will be on Dalom Music groups, Splash, Patricia Majalisa, Don B (Donald Botshelo), Dalom Kids, Matshikos and Peacock, the show will afford two local disco musicians Linda Kgosiemang and Mercy Magobi a chance to showcase their...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 27 November 2008
Gloomy christmas for BMR workers as Activox shuts down
An anxious employee of BMR based at the Activox Demonstration Plant at the Tati Nickel Mine says management briefed them early this week about their 'inevitable' job losses. Says the man, who prefers anonymity: "We have been informed that this...
RYDER GABATHUSE
Staff Writer 27 November 2008
Book review
The Witch of Portobello is by the Brazilian writer, Paulo Coelho, who is one of the most popular living authors today. He began with, Hell's Archives (1982), and has gone on to write The Pilgrimage (1987) and then The Alchemist (1988). The sales of...
28 November 2008
SADC must sqeeze Mugabe
For a long time, the mediator in the Zimbabwean impasse and former South African president Thabo Mbeki had amazingly managed to hoodwink leaders of Southern Africa, African Union and, indeed, the entire international community that things will...
EDITOR 28 November 2008
WHITHER BOTSWANA
None of the nation's previous three presidencies ever attracted so much controversy and debate. Even former President Festus Mogae's presidency (which was similar to Khama's in that it also came as a complete surprise to the Botswana public) was far...
DAN MOABI 28 November 2008
The charmed life of Mzwinila
The compound has tall eucalyptus trees. The living room of the main house is spacious with rows of military green spider canvas chairs lining the wall. Mzwinila is sitting on one of the spider chairs behind a cross legged tray fashioned into a table....
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 28 November 2008
Man of controversy
The same thing happened when he joined the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) as manager of Sir Seretse Khama Airport. After leaving DCA, he started numerous companies but he was jailed for 13 years for possession of mandrax. He was discharged and...
GALE NGAKANE
Correspondent 28 November 2008
Can wrong negotiators come up with right decisions for Zimbabwe?
The whole exercise of these talks is a misdirected effort because the world is trying to force Zimbabweans into accepting Mugabe's loss as a win. Mediators are trying to accommodate a loser without the voters' permission; they are trying to force...
DON-MARTIN ROPAFADZO 28 November 2008
What drives Khama's loathing for the media?
"News is the glue that binds free societies together," Allen H Neuharth, chairperson, The Freedom Forum, 1993. This quotation could be helpful to President Ian Khama who steadfastly refuses to interact with the country's journalists, at least...
28 November 2008
BIUST Vice-Chancellor speaks
These are the words of Professor Kweku Bentil, Vice-Chancellor of the recently established Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST). He echoes what is used to explain Africa's stagnation and degeneration. Pundits have...
EPHRAIM KEORENG
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Batswana in P120 million IT e-passport deal
That man was Monametsi Kalayamotho, a Gaborone socialite, who also owns an IT company, Blocks IT, situated at Block 8 Industrial. Kalayamotho, whose company is currently doing computer maintenance work for the Ministry of Science, Communications and...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Morwaeng, Sebele enter pre-trial parley
Sebele, a member of the BaKwena royal family, challenged Molepolole South MP, Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri, in the primary elections for that constituency but was not successful in his bid. Morwaeng, who is a BDP activist in Molepolole, is claiming...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 November 2008
A-Cap denies connection to nuclear waste project
The nuclear waste facility is being mooted by the Department of Radiation in the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, and environmental impact assessment has already started with the various stakeholders including the villagers at...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Back Stage
Into the Wild appeared first as a work of non-fiction by Jon Krakauer in 1996. The movie is a creation of Sean Penn who directed and wrote the script, but worked closely with Krakauer and the family of the 23-year-old who went into the wild in...
Sasa Majuma 28 November 2008
Police probe DISS operatives over torture
Two soldiers and two policemen have said they were severely beaten and humiliated at a torture chamber at the offices of DISS about a month ago. The matter was reported to Central Police Station in Gaborone. The former commander of the station,...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Four Batswana fugitives on Interpol list
Botswana police spokesman, Senior Superintendent Christopher Mbulawa said though they know where Rabana is, he still remains on the Red Notice issued by Interpol. Other Batswana fugitives on the Red Notice are Enoch Philemon, who is wanted for...
ISAIAH MOREWAGAE
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
DK tables Public Service Bill
To facilitate the implementation of unionisation, the Bill merges the Public Service Act, the Teaching Service Act, parts of the Tribal Land Act and the Unified Local Government Service Act. According to the extraordinary Gazette, the Bill sets out...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Another student leaps to his death in Malaysia
His death comes hardly a month after another student studying in the same country plunged to his death from the ninth floor. The student who hails from Hukuntsi was still doing his foundation programme at the Limkokwing University of Creative...
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Basarwa report Botswana to the Pope
A Bushman spokesman said today, 'We beg the Pope to help, to pray for us so that government changes its attitude towards us and respects our rights as indigenous peoples of this land.' The establishment of diplomatic relations was initiated by...
28 November 2008
Response to GIPS
In the said announcement, the SRC of GIPS wishes to detach itself from the recent petition to the minister of Education by BCP youth in solidarity with some students from GIPS and other institutions of higher learning. Above all I wish to observe...
28 November 2008
NITTY GRITTY
Lekota = a pain and threat (to the African National Congress).Les affaire = French word = "lesa fela".Mandela = icon and saint of a leader, kept in jail for years only to be released to become 1st black President of South Africa (some of...
BAROLONG SEBONI 28 November 2008
BNF's deafening silence on the Moatlhodi debacle
With everyday that passes the military junta headed by Ian Khama, which took over from Mogae tightens the noose around our necks - taking a way our precious civil liberties and freedoms. It could not have been otherwise. What is even...
* DR ELMON TAFA 28 November 2008
First Cut
It will have been very surprising had be Mobile not opted to enter the football fray. All over the world, cellphone companies are major sponsors of football. If you are a football person you would know better: Zain, Vodafone, Telcom, MTN, Vodacom,...
TSHIMOLOGO BOITUMELO 28 November 2008
Botswana improve Olympiad record
Compared to the 2006 event, Botswana did very well at team and individual levels. Perhaps the most significant improvement came from Botswana men's team board four player, Barileng Gaealashwe, who in 2006 managed only one point out of a possible...
MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
The Chinese kill our businesses," cries young designer
The young jewelry designer uses beads to make an array of products, which are fast proving to be popular with fashionable people, especially the youth. It was while studying Business Administration at the Academy of Learning in Johannesburg, South...
GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Diphatsa pull out of Zone VI tournament
The club needs about P70,000 for transport but coach Daniel Ngozi said they have only managed to raise around P30,000. Diphatsa got a special invitation from the organisers and this means the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) cannot fund...
MOSAH MOKGANEDI
Correspondent 28 November 2008
Troubled Nico take on ECCO
The fixture comes after reports that Nico coach, Madinda Ndlovu has resigned and players are not happy. Hence Ndlovu takes his troops to Francistown hoping for a good result to boost morale. The two clubs were locked in a tug-of-war at the end of...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 28 November 2008
Thriler in Ramotwsa
While Killer Giants are still smarting from losing their unbeaten record to Kgabosetso, Letlapeng are in cloud nine after a win against fancied Wonder Sporting. The surprise loss to Kgabosetso is a wake-up call to Killer Giants and a sign that they...
LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 28 November 2008
Ndlovu resigns as nico coach?
Nico spokesperson, Matlhale Malepa who was in Gaborone this week said the coach attended training as usual on Wednesday - a day after his reported resignation. "It is nothing but rumours. I even phoned the chairman (Kitso Nkoborwane) who said it was...
MQONDISI DUBE
Correspondent 28 November 2008
The battle resumes
And there can never be a better match to mark the resumption of the competition and launch the sponsorship than fixtures involving the four popular giants of local football, Township Rollers and Extension Gunners; and Gaborone United (GU) and Mochudi...
BOITUMELO KHUTSAFALO
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Cartoon Strip 28.11.08
28 November 2008
Kgosi Sechele Museum Exhibits at Thapong
Just a step into the exhibition gallery one is met by a natural smell of leather and hides as most of the exhibits are made of natural tanned leather using a mixture of herbs from the bush. Just a scent of that leather makes you curious to know more...
CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 28 November 2008
Commodities exchange changes name to Bourse Africa
This was confirmed by the CEO of the Botswana International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), Alan Boshwaen in an interview on Wednesday. "The simple explanation is that they wanted a different brand name from their Indian promoters, MCX India, and...
WANETSHA MOSINYI
Staff Writer 28 November 2008
Govt bails out DiamonEx for Lerala Mine
The loan, extended to DiamonEx by Stanbic Bank Botswana, will enable the company to fund its operating costs following the anticlimactic sale of its first diamonds last month. DiamonEx shareholders had been hoping its inaugural sale of 10 612 carats...
BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT 28 November 2008
African Copper to suspend production at Mowana
The company's strategists are planning to temporarily suspend operations at Botswana's north-eastern copper mine and thereafter resume production through smaller open-pit operations in order to conserve a limited working capital. Mowana shipped its...
BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT 28 November 2008
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